Several years ago, I contacted my state senator, Will Brownsberger, and asked for his help addressing a serious problem: some MBTA buses were leaking engine fumes into their passenger compartments, sickening passengers and putting their long-term health at risk. I wrote about this issue extensively here. In response, Will arranged for me to meet with… Read More: Congratulations to Jeff Gonneville on his new role at the… »
Where I work, we have employees who use (in decreasing order of popularity) Mac OS, Windows, and Linux as their desktop computers. We’ve deployed a large, complex remote administration / MDM application for managing the Mac OS and Windows desktops. It’s big and complicated and difficult to maintain. It does much more than we will… Read More: PenguinDome: new, open-source Linux mobile device management (MDM) solution »
The best way to configure Ubuntu for an encrypted root filesystem is to tell the installer to do it when you’re installing the operating system. It’s complicated, and smart people have put a lot of effort into making the installer know how to do it properly. Having said that, if you’re an experienced Linux sysadmin… Read More: HOWTO: Converting an unencrypted Ubuntu root disk to encrypted »
If you’ve arrived at this page, it’s probably because you’re searching the web for an answer why, even though you’ve called logbook.compat.redirect_logging() in your Python Flask app, you’re still not getting any Flask logging in your log files. The problem is that Flask sets the propagate flag on its logger to False by default, so even though Logbook’s… Read More: Python: How to make Flask work with Logbook »
If you were using a pre-Microsoft-acquisition Skype account with your free Office 365 Skype minutes, then Microsoft broke your Skype on March 1, 2017, and they still haven’t figured out how to fix it.
I run a virtual server on Linode which hosts, among other things, the blog you are currently reading. The server doesn’t get a lot of traffic and is rarely busy or overloaded, so when I get an alert from Linode that its CPU has been pegged for the past two hours, as I did early… Read More: How to hose your web server by releasing free software »
I was victimized by GameStop’s security breach back in October, and again now. I hope it puts them out of business.
I’ve added support for the wonderful webcomic “Strong Female Protagonist” to the comics aggregator. I heartily recommend it. I also heartily recommend that you support its continued publication by donating or buying swag (see the links at the top of strongfemaleprotagonist.com). Enjoy!
I sent the following letter via certified mail this morning: May 23, 2017 Bradford L. Smith, President Microsoft Corporation One Microsoft Way Redmond, WA 98052-6399 Dear Mr. Smith, I have been trying to get an Office 365 / Skype issue resolved for over two and a half months. Your customer support representatives have alternated between… Read More: Dear Microsoft, please stop stonewalling me and fix my broken… »
It took a letter to the president of Zipcar to convince them to refund to me the $55 they owed me.